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(Source: press.ikidane-nippon.com) An executive made a casual remark in a recent intact team development workshop, 'Smoking (together)...

My take on collusion (e.g. pleasing participants in developmental interventions) has been changing in the last few years. First, I was...

[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] I learnt to use the ‘Immunity to Change’...

To a certain extent, I regret that I was major in Economics in university. Economics assumes that people are rational i.e. individuals...

I had a day of individual and team coaching sessions last month. I arrived early to settle myself in my coaching room. The first song...

'What is really going on?' -  It is the question often used in the Adaptive Leadership practice as well as in the psychodynamics...

Some time ago, I worked in a program with a few other coaches. Because of misunderstanding on the schedule, a few coaches could not be...

This post is again about the fundamentals of learning – the use of images.  I came across the above image on ‘Moneyball of Leadership”...

Less than 12 hours before starting a 2-day Leadership Development workshop, the client told me that they need to take the first 1 hour...

Like what I said in the 5 years anniversary, I would not imagine that this blog would last for 10 years when I started it in 2007. I...

Further to my last 2 posts, this one is about the teacher. The French teacher is a great (learning) facilitator. She can easily get a...

This is further to the last post - Learning about learning in a French language class. I cannot help note down a few more amazing...

I was shown in a facilitation learning event a short video clip. It is about a retreat for 50+ people in an organisation design and...

The 2nd question to reflect on is ‘What are ‘good’ odd moments and what are those ‘bad’ ones to avoid?’ By ‘bad’, I mean those odd...

Following from the argument from the last post, there are 2 questions 1. How to assist the participants to learn from the odd moments...

Scenario – Along with others, you designed and ran a 3-day workshop. For various reasons (e.g. flow design, learners’ composition), on...

[.. continued from last post] Third, it is the space. We held the session in her quiet little penthouse in a very old house. From...

In my exploration of what some people called ‘Depth Psychology’, I have been receiving psycho-analysis in recent months. There are a...

I still remember when I saw the first time an Abstractionism painting many many years ago, I wondered 'what is the point?' I have never...

Some thoughts came to my mind when I was attending my French class earlier this week. (Yes, apparently, I was not an attentive student...